Improved vegetable-cutter



'stent @twine FRANZ WAGNER, or NEW YORK, N.Y.

` Letters Patent No. 106,520, dat-ed August 16, 1870.

IM-PROVED VEGETABLE-CUTTER.

The Schedule-referred to in these Letters' Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern.- l I Beit known that I, FRANZ WAGNER, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and. ,improved Vegetable Gutter; and I do hereby deolare'the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference heilig had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which drawing- Figure lvrepresents a longitudinal vertical section of this invention. l'

Figure 2 is an inverted plan thereof. t Similar letters indicate corresponding parts. This invention relates to a Yvegetable-cutter which is intended more particularlyl for slicing beans, but` which may be used for cutting vegetables of `a dili'erent nature.

It consists of a nseries of disk-knives, secured to a `shaft to which a revolving motion' can be imparted,

the cutting-edges of the knives being made to project into cir'cular grooves on a' cylinder which has its bearings in the trame which supports the knife-carrier, said knife-carrier being arranged in combination with the grooved .cylinder andwith a stripper and feedopening in the frame, in such amanuer that, when a revolving motion is imparted to the knife-carrier, and beans or other vegetables are fed in through the feed-opening, the operation ort' slicing said vegetables can be effected with great dispatch.

` A represents a 'ame or box, which is open at the bottom, and provided with a feed-opening, a,"in its top, and with a bracket, B, on one of` its ends, so

'that it can be conveniently secured to a table, as indicated in g. 1 -of the drawing. t

The' sides ofthe frame A form the bearings for the knife-carrier D, and for the grooved o1' notched cylinder E. e

On the knife-carrier is secured a series of diskknives, C, the cutting edges ot which extend into the grooves b of cylinder E, as shown in the drawing, and on one end of the knife-carrier is mounted a crank, G, which serves to impart to the same a revolving motion.

The point of contact between the knives and the cylinder E is below the feedfopening iu the frame A.

The knives C are placed at suitable distances apart, according to the desired width of the slices to be eproduced, and they work through the stripper F, which is attached to the outer end of. the frame A, as clearly Shown in the drawing.

By the action of the stripper the knives are kept Y clean, and the sliced beans, or other vegetables, being prevented from getting between the knives are compelled'to drop down intoa dish or other vessel placed under the frame A.

In slicing beans, or other vegetables, one bean after the other is fed through the opening ot, and divided t Witnesses:

' W. HAUFF, i

. E. F. KAs'rnNHunn. 

